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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03175-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 10 August 1785
- Author/Creator
- Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
- Title
- to William Shepard
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 31.1 cm, Width: 19.6 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Signature has been clipped. Informs Shepard that his endeavors to get payment for a note have been unsuccessful, as "Colonel Pickering informs that he has not any funds for the notes of the time and that it is uncertain when he shall have them." He therefore has the "mortifying necessity" of enclosing the note to Captain Twogood [perhaps Captain William Toogood] rather than the money, but he hopes he can serve Shepard more successfully sometime in the future.
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